About Garrett Garretson

Good People Beget Good People: A Genealogy of the Frist Family

By William H. Frist, Shirley Wilson, p.223 Garrett married Charity Hussey. Wrote his will on Jan 20, 1754 in Hundred and County of New Castle in Delaware. He died by Jan 6, 1758 and the will was probabed in New Castle County. He made no provisions for his wife and the last document of her alive is in 1745. Garrett named 10 children in his will. He left 5 shillings to his son John and cut him off from any further part of his real estate and personal estate. He mentioned grandsons James and John as minor children of Cornelius Garretson, deceased. His sons Eliakim and Jedidiah were to receive his personal real estate, divided among them.